Ant, Meet Boot
June 8, 2023 | Jim Angehr
It’s always hard for preachers to know what to glean from sermon feedback. Unless you give a message that’s unbelievably awesome or undeniably horrible, you’ll not get much of a response at all from people, which means that...
Unrealiable Preachers?
May 25, 2023 | Jim Angehr
My apologies for having spent more time away from my blog desk than planned, everyone. Been busy! Still, let’s circle back around to what I last wrote in this space. Perhaps a trifle of a question, but a book on writing by author Elena...
Unreliable Narrators
April 6, 2023 | Jim Angehr
I deeply love doing it, but being a preacher is weird––in lots of ways, including the preaching itself. Or maybe not. In these days of social media, Substacks, YouTube channels, and podcasts, everyone is pumping out content. Who...
When You Meet Your Hero
March 30, 2023 | Jim Angehr
Welcome to part two of my therapy session as I work through why I was so let down by Bruce Springsteen’s Philadelphia show on Thursday, 3/16! You can gander at part one here. In retrospect, I should have seen it coming. The Bruce...
Problems with My Boss
March 23, 2023 | Jim Angehr
I first heard a song by Bruce Springsteen while crammed in the back of a red 1989 Ford Explorer. It was April of my freshmen year of high school, and I was headed back with other schwetty boys from a tennis tournament in Houma, Louisiana. (I...